Sarah Palin may not be the most eloquent speaker, and she may not be the most informed person on foreign affairs and public policy, but she speaks to the conservative middle ground of America, the hard-working, taxpaying, income-generating backbone of this country.

She must be saying or doing many things right, because the liberals are once again ravaging her in the newspapers and on television.

Terry Bellomo, Aurora

This letter was published in the Nov. 20 edition. For information on how to send a letter to the editor, click here[1].

Sarah Palin is the woman Liberals LOVE to hate, LOVE to mock, LOVE to ridicule, LOVE to poke fun at.And why not? Apparently Liberals realize that if they don't have a very good poker hand, the best way to win is to try to get the other player to fold.

#2 Comment By bellle On November 19, 2009 @ 8:31 pm

Amen.The desperation behavior exhibited by liberals is amazing. And it's backfiring on them.

#3 Comment By ??? On November 20, 2009 @ 3:08 am

Yes, Sarah Palin is the future of the GOP. Please draft her for your nomination as president. She is the brightest shining star the republicans have to offer. And by gosh, I just might change parties and vote for her!! You betcha! wink,wink

#4 Comment By John Irby On November 20, 2009 @ 8:03 am

Terry, you did leave out two things: 1) She may not be the smartest person on the block. 2) She may not be all that truthful. Glad to be of help.

#5 Comment By Anonymous On November 20, 2009 @ 1:13 pm

How is pointing and laughing with painful embarrassment the equivalent of “ravaging”?

#6 Comment By wheeeee2007@aol.com On November 20, 2009 @ 3:04 pm

Excuse me, where have you been for the last year? The GOP has done plenty to torpedo Palin. It makes the GOP look like a bunch of sexists.

#7 Comment By phornbein On November 20, 2009 @ 10:23 am

Geez, ???, let's start a campaign to get her nominated. At the very least, she'd split the Republicans into the moderate wing and the conservative wing and, like in NY-23, it would insure a victory for the Democrats. Maybe we should start a “Draft Palin” page on Facebook…

#8 Comment By Anonymous On November 20, 2009 @ 4:19 pm

as an unaffiliated vote who thinks both parties are slime of the first order. I think if the GOP believes that sara palin has any shot at being elected they must have the loony toons theme music going on in their heads 24/7

she has quit her elected post ( by her own words at that time to ” focus on her family ” ) but as it turns out it was to do a book tour and possibly try and run for another higher office = liar.

that coupled with her obvious ignorance on policy ( of all kinds ) makes her unfit to be elected to ANYTHING.

#9 Comment By cameron greer On November 20, 2009 @ 4:40 pm

Just once I’d like to see a winger like our robt numerals incluetheir definition of “hate” along with their assertions that some one “hates” something or someone else. I’ve a feeling they’ve so diluted that definition in whatever passes for their mind that it is essentially meaningless except for their intended puropse as a conversation stopper.It would seem to include the most benign disagreement or dissent. O also wonder if that doing something right because she irritates the opposition logic(?) applies to our president?

#10 Comment By cameron greer On November 20, 2009 @ 4:44 pm

You of course have solid proof of this “backfire”?Actually most of the progressive people I know are hoping she ends up your nominee. The only “fear” of her I’ve heard is fear that the wingers will figure out what a vacuous twit she actually is and banish her from their roster before she has a chance to inflict maximum damage on your program.

#11 Comment By zivo24 On November 20, 2009 @ 12:46 pm

“but she speaks to the conservative middle ground of America, the hard-working, taxpaying, income-generating backbone of this country”.In case you were all not aware, there are just as many liberals in “middle ground America” who are also ” the hard-working, taxpaying, income-generating backbone of this country” and Palin doesn't” speak to them. And doesn't anyone remember the vitriol conservatives spewed on Hillary Clinton when she was first lady or senator? No, you all seem to have forgotten that, and Clinton was then and still is imminently more intelligent and profoundly more educated on issues than Palin will ever be.

#12 Comment By Romulus On November 20, 2009 @ 2:09 pm

Sarah Palin is quite impressive. A woman who proves she is not a quitter by quitting her position as governor. A woman who represents hard-working Americans as she is raking in millions by writhing a book that stabs in the back the people responsible for her rise to prominence. A woman who takes a year to come up with the name of a newspaper that she regularly reads. A woman who lied about “death panels.” Sarah is a piece of work, all right.

#13 Comment By Wolfe On November 21, 2009 @ 2:31 am

Essentially, Bellomo is calling “the conservative middle ground of America” ignorant and uniformed on foriegn affairs and public policy. Which, of course, is true. She “speaks to them” because they are as ignorant as she is. The “liberals” (i.e. anyone but FauxNews and the fascist Charles Krauthammer) are ravaging her, because what she does say that can be understood without the ‘Palin Rosseta Stone’, is either stolen from another right wing kook (“death panels”, etc.), or is a complete falsification. Already her book is 40% off, IN THE FIRST WEEK! Which means that after the right wing nuts have bought their copies: NO ONE ELSE IS!
PS “conservative middle ground”ers: she didn’t write the book. She had ghost writers. Which is the ONLY reason that the book is readable. Elsewise it would have sounded like one of her speaches: uninteligible, rambling, vacuous, and befitting of someone with no understanding of the subject matter….
PSS: She was a slut in college…..true

#14 Comment By phornbein On November 21, 2009 @ 7:44 am

Come to think of it, I could be talked into voting for Tina Fey…

#15 Comment By Guest On November 21, 2009 @ 2:31 pm

I find Sarah Palin a remarkable person. She has done something I thought impossible. She makes George W. Bush look intelligent and statesmanlike.
Of course, GWB thought she was less than promising.

#16 Comment By Buddy On November 21, 2009 @ 9:48 am

In a sense you were, you obviously voted for Barrak Obama.

#17 Comment By phornbein On November 21, 2009 @ 1:01 pm

Actually, I didn't. I was an elector for one of the marginalized parties.

#18 Comment By Denis On November 22, 2009 @ 12:47 am

Not all of us can sure your fondness for dull-witted, dishonest lovers of superstition who rely on sad claims of victimhood and the support of those who share her distrust of individuals with education and the ability to think.

#19 Comment By Anonymous On November 22, 2009 @ 7:47 am

Not all of us can sure your fondness for dull-witted, dishonest lovers of superstition who rely on sad claims of victimhood and the support of those who share her distrust of individuals with education and the ability to think.

#20 Comment By Denis On November 22, 2009 @ 7:47 am

Not all of us can sure your fondness for dull-witted, dishonest lovers of superstition who rely on sad claims of victimhood and the support of those who share her distrust of individuals with education and the ability to think.